If All Football Coaches Coached Like John Gagliardi We Would All Be.......

watching soccer on Saturdays in the fall instead of football.

The NY Times ran a feature earlier in the week :

http://www.nytimes.com/2009/09/19/sports/ncaafootball/19coach.html?8dpc

It seems like they do one of these every few years and present Coach as so enlightened and civilized in the brutal world of football.

It serves a pablum for the pseudo sophisticates of the Upper Westside.

 

You say that like it's a bad thing.

 

Yeah, must be something wrong with the winningest coach in college football history who graduates players and wins championships...

 

pablum?

it's too early for words like that.

 

Let's see him try that in D1 Sappy

 

Did you read Austin Murphy's book about St. John's?

 

Wow.. a coach who actually gets it and has his priorities in order. And that's a reason to hold him up to ridicule.

Unbelievable.

Give me D-III football over the pseudo-NFL that we know as D-I any day of the week.

 

Again - we'll all be watching soccer on fall Saturday's . The folks down in Auburn did not even like the Spread.

 

Not every program has to be D1; not every D1 program is exciting Buum....

 

I have no problem with what Gagliardi does or how he does it.

I do get tired of the annual stories about it, held out as a shining example. And frequently, by places that have done that story in one form or another before, like the NY Times.

Seems like a pat-on-the-head story about sports for readers who don't follow sports. They'd scream bloody murder, though, if a sportswriter did some pat, token piece on their beloved theater or restaurants or museums or fashion.

 

If D3 is so great how come your pickem league has no D3 games sappy?

 

I didn't make the rules, Bum, I just play by them.
And excitement has no bearing on the measure of the person.